About

Schedules are a system based on cron jobs used to perform a set task or tasks during specific time intervals. If you want your server to backup every day, week or month. Or perhaps you want your server to reset or restart every 6 months, this is how you can accomplish that.

Features

Schedules work by creating your frequency first which then appear as a table on the main Schedules page. Once you have a schedule, you can then define the task you want to perform inside of that schedule.

Creating a schedule

To create a schedule simply click the ‘Create’ button to begin.

Editing a schedule

To edit the schedule you can access the same Schedules page and click on edit to change the schedule you want.

Edit button is located at the top-right of the schedule

Defining a task in a schedule

Once you have a schedule created you can create a task to be performed at the time of the schedule.

Creating a task that sends a 'say' command to the Minecraft server

Creating a restart task

Combining the two above examples, this one shows us "telling the players" a restart is happening, followed by the actual restart command 30 seconds later

Using Advanced Schedules

Its important you understand how a cron job works before creating an advanced schedule. It may seem complicated at first due to the syntax (formatting) for some of you, but we hope breaking it down helps.

Notice the above four different “blocks” you can enter something into? The * (asterisk) means wildcard, a wild card simply in this context means always.

Here is how you read each section (or block).

https://linuxhandbook.com/crontab/

https://linuxhandbook.com/crontab/

What if I want to run a task every 8 hours?

We would input the schedule to be something like this:

What if I want to run a task each month?

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